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Tennessee: federal child-welfare figures and 70 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.

Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on Tennessee.

9,364

Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024

5,621

Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022

9,053

In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022

Sources: NCANDS Child Maltreatment 2024; AFCARS state tables. Full record — every metric, every year, gaps labeled — on KARA SIGNAL

KARA reporting on Tennessee

70 articles, newest first, republished in full.

June 25, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Best and Worst States for Very Young Children in CPS: New Data on Risk, Failures, and Hope

This article uses NCANDS data to identify the best and worst states for very young children in CPS, highlighting where infants and toddlers face the greatest risk of severe harm or death and how troubled, overwhelmed chi

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June 19, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Best & Worst States For America's Children

Where does your state rank in protecting children & what can you do to make improvements. These statistics tell the stories of our best and worst states around the nation

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May 4, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Sometimes People Get Shot

• “From Cedarbluff, Mississippi, to parties in Houston and homes in Indiana, early 2026 brought mass shootings that briefly made headlines and then faded. This essay connects those tragedies to a deeper crisis: how our s

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February 10, 2026 · KARA Reporting

Free and Discounted Resources for Foster Youth

free and discounted resources for foster and adopted children and families

Minnesota · Tennessee

December 26, 2025 · KARA Reporting

MN Children, Institutions, and Politics

Abused and neglected children don't have a voice in the politics and policies that rule their lives. They are at the mercy of our politicians and institutions that serve them.

California · Minnesota · Tennessee

December 4, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Child Protection Podcast Series (part 2)

Check out KARA's most current child abuse and child protection podcast series and hear their stories. Short Powerful Social Worker Interview(7minutes) Rising Numbers of Suicide and Self-Harm Among Children ((5 minutes) W

October 19, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Egregious Child Death in America Today

There are few states that report out egregious harm or death of children at the hands of their parents. Minnesota Nonprofit Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota has recently compiled this report on 88 of the 200 childr

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October 16, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Top Child Abuse - Child Protection Podcast Series For Fall

Check out these child abuse and child protection investigative series, expert dialogues, survivor stories, and child welfare professional resources, all from reputable organizations and advocacy groups.​ These podcasts p

September 18, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Domestic Violence to a Five Year Old (living in a house of terror)

Watching mom beaten or raped is terror. Homeless mothers and children are many times more likely to be assaulted and molested. Children of addicted and alcoholic moms and dads are beaten and raped more often too. Trauma

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August 25, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Join KARA's Child Advocacy Team (& make your community's children safe)

Ways for KARA readers to raise their voice for at risk children. The options in the Read More below provide direct impact, community building, and how to create policy change for at risk children where you live. Join KAR

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February 19, 2025 · KARA Reporting

Child Death and Public Non Disclosure (thank you Marie Cohen)

Much of this article is taken from Marie Cohen's remarkable research at the American Enterprise Institute. For those of you concerned with Child Protective Services in your community, Marie's article is detailed and powe

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August 11, 2024 · KARA Reporting

What Teachers Are Facing Today and Tomorrow

Teachers feel undervalued and overwhelmed. Turnover his high and a number of states are using unqualified people to fill positions.

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October 6, 2023 · KARA Reporting

Children & Gun Violence (as American as Apple Pie)

2020, he child and teen gun death rate in the U.S. was more than 3 times higher than that in Turkey, the country with the next highest rate; 11 times higher than in Israel; 19 times higher than in Switzerland and 85 time

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June 10, 2022 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare Articles and Statistics For Week of 6.10.2022

Child Welfare Articles and Statistics For Week of 6.10.2022

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December 21, 2021 · KARA Reporting

Domestic Violence Around the World

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WINTER 2021 The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that we are seeing a horrifying global surge in domestic violence all over the world and is urging lea

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October 9, 2021 · KARA Reporting

Arresting Sobbing Eight Year Old Children In Tennessee

At Rutherford County’s Hobgood elementary school, An 8 year old, two 9 year old’s and an 11 year old walk into a principal’s office… And are arrested and handcuffed (“out of habit” said officer Jeff Carroll).

Minnesota · Tennessee

October 4, 2021 · KARA Reporting

October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Watching your mother being beat up or raped is the same trauma as being beaten or raped to a five or nine year old. Untreated trauma lasts forever and it changes a person forever. The United Nation's-Secretary General An

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October 18, 2020 · KARA Reporting

Child Suicide Reporting (3 weeks ending 10.17.20)

These articles reflect current trends in child suicide & self-harm in America today. Only a fraction of child/youth suicides are successful. The vast majority of self-inflicted harm remains invisible. Mental health servi

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June 10, 2020 · KARA Reporting

The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)

Because schools are closed, after-school activities are canceled and churches aren't having youth groups and community activity with trusted adults outside the home have evaporated - the chances an abused child can find

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April 27, 2020 · KARA Reporting

Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part IV

speaking on critical issues impacting abused and neglected children for many years. Shelter In Place locks abused children in toxic homes With no escape to the safety of a classroom Domestic violence is rising and law en

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December 18, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Sad Stories Child Abuse - Child Death Articles & Statistics

These stories, articles and statistics tell the stories of childhood trauma and death in America over the past few months - INVITE KARA’S INVISIBLE CHILDREN Program into your community.

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November 28, 2019 · KARA Reporting

MN Child Abuse/Child Protection Articles, Statistics & Events 2019

KARA gathers news about Minnesota’s at risk children to provide a snapshot of how our state values its children. Only a fraction of serious child abuse makes the news. All Adults Are the Protectors of All Children Follow

Minnesota · Tennessee

June 22, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Sad Stories June 2019 (III - child suicide)

The National Poison Data System, researchers found more than 1.6 million cases of 10- to 24-year-olds attempting to kill themselves by poisoning from 2000 to 2018. More than 70% of the suicide attempts by poisoning were

California · Louisiana · Michigan · Tennessee

January 3, 2019 · KARA Reporting

Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part II)

KARA’s reporting is only a sampling of what should be reported Most child suicide is under reported & obfuscated. Your state, resources & statistics here…

Indiana · South Dakota · Tennessee · Washington

December 31, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Recent Child Sex Abuse Reports & Statistics

KARA’s reporting is only a sampling of what should be reported the great majority of child sex trafficking, trauma & abuse is never known. 37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported

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October 24, 2018 · KARA Reporting

September 2018 Child Sex Abuse & Trafficking (I)

KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Human trafficking is rapidly growing crime across Tennessee In Tenne

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August 8, 2018 · KARA Reporting

July 2018 Child Abuse / Child Protection (part 3)

KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This reporting is only sampling of what should be reported – the gre

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July 14, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Burns, Torture and Trauma for June 2018

Community summit to address childhood trauma WCTV (WCTV) - According to Child Protective Services nearly 700,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect in 2016. Experts say those traumatic experiences can leave a last

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July 6, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Domestic Violence & Violence Against Children for June 2018

Des Moines man pleads guilty to beating baby boy, causing skull fractures, brain bleed DesMoinesRegister.com An 18-year-old Des Moines man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he beat his child, sending the baby boy to the h

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June 16, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Burns, Sex Abuse & Beatings May 2018 (find your state here) 1

Accused child killers plead not guilty in Seneca County Court Rochester Democrat and Chronicle The mother and stepfather of a 3-year-old taken off of life support last week after being beaten until he was brain dead plea

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June 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (8) neglect

Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generation of abused children raising their own families without parenting skills and with serious drug, alcohol and mental health issues 37% of children overall and 57

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July 22, 2017 · KARA Reporting

June 2017 Sad Stories Part II

KARA tracks current news about at child abuse and child protection bringing awareness and transparency to the issues of our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. These pages are only a tiny percentage of what happens to

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February 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting

CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation October/November 2016

FIND YOUR CASA here - CASA's around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this page. These CASA guardian ad-Lite

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December 31, 2016 · KARA Reporting

December Sad Stories Part II

CA: Culp: Looking at 2016 in the Rear-View Mirror (Opinion) TechWire - December 28, 2016 One of the biggest sessions at the American Public Human Services Association's Information Systems Management Conference this year

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December 2, 2016 · KARA Reporting

November 2016 Sad Stories Part II

Sign Up Here For Friday morning news updates (free) KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Please note that what you see here is

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October 8, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for September 2016

FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa

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September 17, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA guardian ad Litem News & Stories for August 2016

Jan. 17 trial date set in Sullivan County homicide Terre Haute Tribune Star Tribune-Star/Lisa TriggDefendant Joshua Travis Hall is led from the Sullivan Superior courtroom by Sheriff Clark Cottom following a hearing Mond

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August 13, 2016 · KARA Reporting

CASA Guardian ad Litem News From Around the Nation July 2016

FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you KARA volunteers for your research and writing on this page. All Adult

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May 2, 2016 · KARA Reporting

ACES Connection (articles from April)

MARC Advisor: Brenda Jones Harden, PhD, ACEsConnection.com Dr. Brenda Jones Harden is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland College Park. He

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February 22, 2016 · KARA Reporting

More Americans Killed By Toddlers With Guns Than Terrorists

Toddlers with guns have murdered 5 people with guns in America this year, terrorists 3. Would we be safer if the NSA were spying on children, or just keeping an eye on pistol packing families? Here's a list of this years

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September 25, 2015 · KARA Reporting

Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for September 2015 – find your state/country here)

Every month KARA publishes articles that go unnoticed outside of the community they occur. These stories are gathered from different sources all around the nation and some international stories. Please share this page wi

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August 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting

How We Punish - And What It Does To Children & Our Community

For many years, we have fed younger and younger people into our Criminal Justice System and gotten the same results over and over again as children graduate into the Criminal Justice System with a recidivism rate that ma

Indiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · Pennsylvania · Tennessee

April 17, 2015 · KARA Reporting

CASA News Around the Nation for April (what do guardian ad-Litems do?)

The following is a compilation of Court Appointed Special Advocate - guardian ad-litem news in April from around the nation (find your state here). Send KARA your announcements & news articles (short form with links & in

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June 5, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare In The News (find your state here - some international)

FL: Daniel Kids offering foster care training classes: More than 8,000 children are currently in Florida foster care (Includes video) News 4 Jax - June 01, 2014 Here in Florida there are over 8,000 children currently in

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May 13, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Children In The News (update)

MI: Littlest victims: Here's one easy way you can (and should) fight child abuse (Includes Video) mLive - May 01, 2014 This video, titled Make the Call, is a community effort to encourage people to make that call. http:/

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March 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Suspending 3 Year Olds (race matters)

Even preschoolers are getting suspended from U.S. public schools, and they're disproportionately black, a trend that continues up through the later grades.

District of Columbia · Tennessee

February 21, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Snakes In Guatemala vs Guns In America

Last weekend, after 20 years of handling snakes, Jamie Coots received his final bite. A rattler got him in the back of the hand. It happened as Coots, a Pentecostal minister, was leading the Saturday night service at his

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February 3, 2014 · KARA Reporting

A Glimmer Of Hope (push for preschool)

Preschool is having its moment, as a favored cause for politicians and interest groups who ordinarily have trouble agreeing on the time of day. President Obama devoted part of his State of the Union address to it, while

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January 26, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse In Your State (recent news from across the nation - thank you Child Welfare in the News)

IN: Can parents sue DCS? Yes, divided justices rule Indiana Lawyer - January 01, 2014 A sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court decision that a family may sue the state's child protection agency for negligence is sure to r

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January 1, 2014 · KARA Reporting

Improving State Child Protection Systems In 2014 (whatever it takes)

Class action lawsuits get results where legislators don't (Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, D.C., New Jersey, Mississippi) Proving that it's not who is your senator, but who is your attorney. Whatever it Takes. From Oklahom

Georgia · Mississippi · New Jersey · Oklahoma · Tennessee

November 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting

What Makes Us So Mean? (just wait til you're in diapers)

Tennessee Congressman Stephen Fincher (who receives 3.5 million in federal crop subsidies) told the New York Times that his bible states "he who is unwilling to work shall not eat". Not my kind of religion. Walmart pays

Connecticut · New Jersey · Tennessee

August 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting

CHILD WELFARE NEWS STATE BY STATE (for August)

NBC 4 - August 28, 2013 Records obtained by NBC4 show 63 children died in Los Angeles County as a result of abuse and neglect since January 2012, including some with a lengthy history of allegations leading up to the dea

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August 8, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Child Welfare In The News (find your state - nation here) 100+ articles

Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway (www.childwelfare.gov), a service of the Children's Bureau/ACF/HHS (www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb). It features news stories on top

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May 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting

How To Sell Guns To Five Year Old's (yes we do)

Mother Earth News this month includes weapons manufacturers marketing materials aimed at very young children. It is disturbing. It was just last week a five year old Kentucky boy killed his two year old sister with his "

Idaho · Kentucky · New Jersey · New York · South Carolina · Tennessee

April 14, 2013 · KARA Reporting

More Cheating Fallout From the NCLB Tragedy (DC Schools This Time)

Teachers that lived through the Bush era No Child Left Behind fiasco understand the impossibility of making students succeed and schools look good with inadequate resources and classrooms bulging with kids that can't rea

District of Columbia · Georgia · Michigan · Tennessee · Texas

April 1, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (Weekly)

Teen who killed baby sentenced to 90 days October 18, 2012. Colorado. Dylan Kuhn had called authorities stating that his 6-month-old daughter was found hanging from her crib by her next and that she wasn’t breathing. Aut

Colorado · New Mexico · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Tennessee · Virginia

March 13, 2013 · KARA Reporting

A New Standard For Disaster; Tennessee (802 child deaths in 2011)

It's painful to watch any children and family services system in turmoil, but the goings on in Tennessee right now might be setting a new standard for disaster. The Tennessee Department of Children's Services (TDCS) is l

Minnesota · Tennessee

February 4, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Total Disaster In Tennessee (NV, TN, CA, & TX in Trouble Too) Disappearing Watchdogs Around the Nation

When detectives interviewed Brewer, she told them the children were punished for stealing food. The case "even shocked some of our most veteran children's case workers," Hudson said. Brewer pleaded not guilty to eight fe

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February 1, 2013 · KARA Reporting

Guns and Children In Florida (it's not guns that kill people) It's Bad Laws About Guns

In Florida it is against the law for a Pediatrician to ask a patient about guns in the house. In 2010 almost 20,000 children were killed or wounded by firearms in America (A child is killed or wounded every thirty minute

Florida · New Jersey · South Carolina · Tennessee

August 1, 2012 · KARA Reporting

Little Is Known About Deaths & Serious Injuries To Children In America

While this article was about children in America’s day care centers, I draw your attention to the terrific increase in brutal violence against children outside of day care. As a guardian ad-Litem for Hennepin County I ha

Colorado · Indiana · Louisiana · Minnesota · Mississippi · Tennessee

July 17, 2012 · KARA Reporting

The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary

The National Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary/Research Project August 1, 2012, we will be kicking off from Shreveport, Louisiana and will end after May 25, 2013 Washington D.C. two day Rally and Million Surviv

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April 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting

From Child Welfare In The News

AZ: Money for foster care in Arizona could be cut by more than half ABC15.com April 18, 2012 The Chandler couple doesn’t understand why state lawmakers would even consider a 60 percent cut to Child Protective Services. U

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March 24, 2012 · KARA Reporting

The State Of American Schools (& Stop Blaming Teachers)

Average reading level of America's Senior High Students; 5th grade proficiency Math questions for Georgia grade school children; "Each tree had 56 oranges," the first question starts. "If 8 slaves pick them equally, then

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December 20, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Child Abuse Death; Every Child Matters

While the child abuse/child neglect crisis is one of major national concern, it also is of particular significance in the top 12 states that are above the national average for child abuse/neglect deaths (2.33 per 100,000

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March 15, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Abused & Neglected Children Around The Nation

Without reduced funding to manage the increased calls coming in from the community distress that results from the poverty and chaos from our declining economy, social service agencies are becoming unable to respond adequ

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February 26, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Acting Like A Responsible Adult

America's aging population is retreating into retirement with its pensions and savings and leaving young families with failing schools, health systems, and communities.

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January 24, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Crimes Against Children Study New Hampshire University:

CONCLUSIONS: The scope and diversity of child exposure to victimization is not well recognized. Clinicians and researchers need to inquire about a larger spectrum of victimization types to identify multiply victimized ch

New Hampshire · Tennessee

January 8, 2010 · KARA Reporting

Growing Up In America

One of my guardian ad-Litem youth walked home for many hours on a below zero Minnesota night without a coat because of the abuse he received at a juvenile detention center. He had had enough troubles for a lifetime befor

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June 27, 2009 · KARA Reporting

Tennessee's High Infant Death Rate

Of the 23 richest countries, the United States has the highest rate of infant mortality, according to the CIA World Fact Book. And in Shelby County, Tenn., which encompasses Memphis, the state health department says a ba

October 9, 2006 · KARA Reporting

Children's Defense Fund Training

And most of all, how we can become comfortable being "the voice" for At Risk Children in our communities. I have delusions about how to be helpful to CDF for Item B. Half of an experience like this is meeting so many sma

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